Innovation

These are the kinds of digital services that have been technologically available for 25 years but just haven't been implemented anywhere. Basically, for scalability all you need is more servers.

Former President of Estonia & Cybersecurity Pioneer

If you have a start-up, you start out with an idea, but in 6 months you realise 'that wasn't the right idea'. This is how truly creative companies work. Nobody can do that with EU funding because you are locked-in to your original proposal – and because of that no-one I know in the start-up world wants money from the EU.

Former President of Estonia & Cybersecurity Pioneer

More important than picking specific industries, what matters is ensuring competitive and innovative companies that are able to compete in international markets.

Former Prime Minister of Portugal (2015-2024)

We believe that entrepreneurship is indispensable for the emergence of innovative companies that allow for the diversification and renewal of our economy, ensuring sustainable economic growth and the creation of qualified employment.

Former Prime Minister of Portugal (2015-2024)

We adopted a National Strategy for Entrepreneurship: Startup Portugal. A strategy that aims to make Portugal the ideal space to create, test, fail and try again.

Former Prime Minister of Portugal (2015-2024)

If Leonardo Da Vinci could somehow be transported to the present, he would be blown away by the level of knowledge that's available to all of us by a simple press of a key. It follows that we all have the opportunity to be on the level of Da Vinci or Franklin because we all have access to so many different forms of knowledge.

Author of "The 48 Laws of Power" & Strategist

Machines are pushing people to new frontiers, and teach us that complacency and the status-quo are not working.

World Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism

In rich countries, 'innovation' often means finding a better way of doing things. But in developing countries, it can mean finding a way to do things at all.

Co-Founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health Advocate

An object must be useful before being beautiful.

Renowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design

It sounds strange but my system came to me in a sort-of almost otherworldly way. It was very powerful.

Stock Broker Convicted of Fraud; Subject of "The Wolf of Wall Street

From a global point of view, we are currently in the middle of a technical revolution similar to what our grandparents experienced when everybody switched their horse carts for cars. The same is happening now and it is a phase of transition for many businesses.

Former Formula 1 World Champion, won 2016 title with Mercedes

Having grown up and worked in this environment, I strongly believe there is a solution to everything as long as you are not willing to accept a status quo and constantly look for better results.

Former Formula 1 World Champion, won 2016 title with Mercedes

Humans often come together by believing in ideas that may only exist in our imaginations. We have an ability to imagine together, to merge our ideas as a collective, which can slowly move us toward a future once believed to be impossible. This is part of what changes us from being simple animals to a group that will soon travel to Mars and perhaps even further. To me that is magic.

Illusionist & Street Magician Known for Endurance Stunts & Television Specials

You have to keep reaching, keep thinking about what the next-level is.

Grammy-Winning Producer, Rapper & Innovator from Black Eyed Peas

I'm just a person who loves to do things before others. I try to do things before they become huge – I feel the market, the world, and try to be more-close to the world today. That's what I think it takes to be an entrepreneur.

Founder and Chairman of Diesel fashion brand and Only The Brave Group

Fashion has always been a linear business terms of production, consumption and so-on. We need to move it from linear to circular to make it more sustainable.